Editing Carl Linnaeus (section)

=== ''Nutrix Noverca'' ===
[[File:Nutrix noverca.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Cover of ''Nutrix Noverca'' (1752)]]
During Linnaeus's time it was normal for upper class women to have [[wet nurse]]s for their babies. Linnaeus joined an ongoing campaign to end this practice in Sweden and promote breast-feeding by mothers. In 1752 Linnaeus published a thesis along with Frederick Lindberg, a physician student,<ref>{{cite book| author=Tönz, Otmar| chapter=Breastfeeding in modern and ancient times: Facts, ideas and beliefs| page=12| title= Short and Long Term Effects of Breast Feeding on Child Health| editor1=Koletzko, Berthold|editor2=Michaelsen, K. F.|editor3=Hernell, Olle| publisher=Springer| year=2006}}</ref> based on their experiences.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/NutrixNoverca|title=Nutrix Noverca|year=1752|author=Carl Linnaeus|language=la}}</ref> In the tradition of the period, this dissertation was essentially an idea of the presiding reviewer (''prases'') expounded upon by the student. Linnaeus's dissertation was translated into French by [[Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert|J. E. Gilibert]] in 1770 as {{lang|fr|La Nourrice marâtre, ou Dissertation sur les suites funestes du nourrisage mercénaire}}. Linnaeus suggested that children might absorb the personality of their wet nurse through the milk. He admired the child care practices of the Lapps<ref name="Koerner, Lisbet 2009 69–70">{{cite book|author=Koerner, Lisbet| title=Linnaeus: Nature and Nation| year=2009| pages=69–70}}</ref> and pointed out how healthy their babies were compared to those of Europeans who employed wet nurses. He compared the behaviour of wild animals and pointed out how none of them denied their newborns their breastmilk.<ref name="Koerner, Lisbet 2009 69–70"/> It is thought that his activism played a role in his choice of the term ''Mammalia'' for the class of organisms.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Why Mammals are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century Natural History| first=Londa| last=Schiebinger| s2cid=46119192| journal=The American Historical Review| volume=98| issue=2| year=1993|pages= 382–411 |jstor=2166840| doi=10.2307/2166840| pmid=11623150}}</ref>